Worlds best documentary film maker introduces free screening

World’s best documentary film maker introduces free screeningThe director of the world’s best documentary film is to visit Glasgow next week for a special free screening of his most celebrated work.Arunas Matelis’s remarkable documentary, ‘Before Flying Back to the Earth’ topped the list of the 50 best documentaries of all time – Martin Scorcese’s ‘Bob Dylan – No Direction Home’ was 2nd – according to ratings by visitors to the world’s most popular movie website: ‘The Internet Movie Database’.The Lithuanian director will give a talk at 5pm on Tuesday 23 October in Room 408, Gilmorehill G12 Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow prior to the 6.15pm free screening of the award-winning documentary.‘Before Flying Back to the Earth’ is Matelis’s first feature-length documentary film. It shows the lives of children with leukemia in Vilnius Pediatric Hospital in a poetic but unsentimental way. The documentary celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.The film – in Lithuanian with English subtitles – is showing as part of a series of Lithuanian films at the Gilmorehill G12 Cinema on 22, 23 and 24 October.Full details of the Lithuanian cultural events at the University of Glasgow can be found here: http://www.gla.ac.uk/crcees/announce/lithuanianculturalevents.html